Motivational Quotes

Courage

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Courage

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.